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" The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable situations, ones that are the source of great drama and national self-reflection. "

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" Marc Frydman and I are overwhelmed by the confidence Touchstone Television has shown in us, and we're thrilled to continue trying to knock 'em out of the park. "

Rod Lurie

Trying

Park

" What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing. "

" You will never - and I mean never - be able to figure out if I was an Obama guy or a Hillary guy. "

" I often found that my favorite scene that I shoot is often one that I cut out, like in 'The Last Castle' and 'The Contender.' If you look at the deleted scenes, some of the best scenes never made it into the film. "

" Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have. "

" If I have to answer one more time, 'Why did you want to remake 'Straw Dogs?'' with the emphasis on the word 'why,' I'm going to flip out. "

Rod Lurie

Want

Why

" Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking. "

" There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.' "

" When you make a movie like 'Straw Dogs,' your goal is to have people's eyes remain glued to the screen. It serves you no purpose to turn away from the screen. "

" Most people with whom I talk, often quite educated, think the military is made up of knife-between-the-teeth grunts, uneducated robots without any kind of free will whatsoever - people who goose step to Republican philosophy and particularly the Bush cowboy mentality. "

" Hollywood is enamored of the 20- to 30-year-old actress, but by the very nature of the life experience of the character, the roles cannot be that rich. You can only have Angelina Jolie in a mental hospital so many times. "

" The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported. "

" It's not such a bad thing to bring some naive optimism to Washington. "

" Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was. "

" I'm sure when 'Midnight Cowboy' came out, it took a couple of minutes to get used to the voice and the look of Dustin Hoffman, or to even recognize that it was Dustin Hoffman. "

" I don't know a nicer guy in the world than Alan Alda. "

" There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films. "

Rod Lurie

People

Standing

" I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it. "

" Finding out you're able to do something doesn't necessarily mean you want to do it. "

" I don't think I'm equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message. "

" I can't stand to see myself on TV. "

" I have to admit that all of us creatively involved with 'Commander' absolutely intended to put the term 'Madam President' into the zeitgeist. I can't deny it. "

" No matter how far they rise, women never stop being the caregiver. At the end of the day, women bear the emotional responsibility for their families. "

" Anything about Iraq is a death sentence at the box office... You can't make movies about an unpopular war while the war is still going on - people don't want to pay to get depressed, though they sometimes will go to movies to get educated. "

" I met Joan Allen at an L.A. Film Critics Awards' dinner, and I said, 'I want to write a movie for you.' "

" When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics. "

" I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape. "

Rod Lurie

Good

Only

" I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard. "

" The truth is that we're not remaking Sam Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs,' we're making 'Straw Dogs.' We're taking this story, and we're putting our own spin on it. The mere fact that I have James Marsden in it is an indication that it's a very different film than the one that had Dustin Hoffman in it. "

" When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want - no guessing. "